Category Archives: garden ornament
Outdoor Rooms Need Shelving
Outdoor furniture, kitchens, fireplaces. Outdoor fabrics have come a long way for dirt and UV resistance. But anyone else notice something lacking? Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, but it seems to me that for sturdy outdoor … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, garden ornament, pots and containers, shop talk, succulents
Tagged Building REsources, outdoor rooms, salvage, shelving
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Desk Diversions
The past few days have been misshapen, unwholesome things, misspent in a prolonged bout of desk duty. Sporadic but sweet relief and diversion came in the form of The Paris Apartment. Claudia has been shopping the Paris flea markets(!) The … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden ornament, pots and containers
Tagged Colette, Irving Penn, Paris flea markets, Parisian florists
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Villa Mundo Nuevo
This fall photographer MB Maher revisited this Northern Californian residential garden designed by landscape architect Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture and built by contractor Jim Everett of EvLand LLC that won the 2010 California Landscape Contractors Association Trophy Award. … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, edibles, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged 2010 CLCA Trophy Award, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Evland LLC, formal gardens, Interleafing, Jarrod Baumann, Jim Everett, landscape architecture, Laura Livengood Schaub, mediterranean climate, Northern California, Villa Mundo Nuevo, Zeterre Landscape Architecture
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Wreath of Asarina
Now that it’s October, the grapevine wreath I hung on the fence mid-summer doesn’t seem half as silly. The pink flowers are from a nearby Asarina scandens, which has been galloping over the fence. The wreath is one I made … Continue reading
Old Lights Made New
In the angle of the eaves where the house intersects with the bath house, the space cried out for a light. A hanging light or three. I’ve had these three glass shades for many, many years, but every time I … Continue reading
Blue Bottle & Finial
I cleaned out my garden shed the other day and found this blue bottle buried under twine and dirty garden gloves dried into angry fist shapes. There was apparently attraction enough at one time for me to squirrel the bottle … Continue reading
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Tagged bottle tree, Building REsources, cobalt blue, Echeveria elegans, finial, glass bottles
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Succulent Experiments
Crassula expansa subsp. fragilis was planted this past May in these car jack stands, using window screening to hold the soil in, first pictured here near the bottom of the post. Unlike my mossy experiments, this crassula is growing much … Continue reading
Occasional Daily Photo 7/7/11
Echeveria runyonii ‘Topsy Turvy’ in an urn at Big Daddy’s. (At the end of the month, Big Daddy’s will be moving from its Gardena location to Culver City and may possibly be more inclined to discount inventory rather than pack … Continue reading
Raw Salvage
I first heard about Big Daddy’s architectural salvage and antique business from Reuben’s blog Rancho Reubidoux and had been itching to check it out ever since, which I finally did about a month ago. The contrast between the natural world … Continue reading
Le Prince Jardinier
Véritable chaise des jardins parisiens restaurée. Google translation: “Chair of the true Parisian gardens restored.” The Parisian shop Le Prince Jardinier is mentioned by Natalia Hill in her piece “Get Stuffed — The Animal Wonderland of Deyrolle,” found on the … Continue reading